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The Western Front Today - 7th Division Memorial

The 7th Division Memorial,
some 20km from
Ypres by road, comprises an obelisk bearing the legend '7' on all four
sides. The lettering inscribed upon the memorial - which was erected
in 1924 on the site of a pre-war chapel - is now somewhat faded.

The memorial, sited in
Broodseinde, is located in the area where the first trenches were dug - by
the British 7th Division in mid-October 1914 - in the Ypres Salient. The memorial commemorates
the actions of the 7th Division who were based in the area in both
1914 and 1917, securing the Zonnebeke Ridge on the latter occasion, albeit
at a heavy cost in casualties (2,672).